NORFOLK, Va. (April 6,
2005) – Tidewater Community College is pleased to announce
that Rebecca K. Yingling has been appointed director of continuing
education. Yingling will oversee the design and implementation of
continuing education programs in the region including professional
development and enrichment courses offered to the general public.

The position supports the vision of TCC as the new millennium’s
strategic community college—a national model of a comprehensive
community college in the 21st century. Its purpose is to better
market, promote, develop and implement continuing education activities
to meet the professional and personal needs of the South Hampton
Roads community.

Yingling has more than 18 years of experience administering educational
programs at the post-secondary level. She has managed a wide array
of programs from Kid's College and an Older Adult Institute to seminars
for professional groups as well as corporate training. Most recently,
she was the director of continuing studies for five years at Otterbein
College in Ohio.

Yingling has a masters degree in adult continuing education from
Northern Illinois University.

Tidewater Community College
is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth
of Virginia, enrolling more than 35,000 students annually. The 37th
largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC
ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges. Founded
in 1968 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the
college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake,
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne
and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district
in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth
and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-four
percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university
in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC. For more information,
visit www.tcc.edu